AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
As Alan Dexter discovers, this chip may be the runt of the Zen 3 family, but it delivers where it counts most: gaming.
AMD’s chip achieves a lot with ‘just’ six cores.
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o far, the one serious criticism of AMD’s Zen 3 has been that the chips are on the pricey side.
This is less of a problem at the high-end, where time is money and high performance can claw back time, but as you head down the stack and focus more on gaming, the pay-off needs to be more immediate.
Enter then the 5600X. While you couldn’t really call £299 a budget CPU, it’s a more manageable mainstream price point that has historically seen plenty of competition. Currently, you’re looking at the likes of the Core i7 10700K, which can be had for around £350, while a more direct comparison can be made with the Core i5 10600K that will set you back £240.